In this enthusiastic, adulatory review of Justin Marozzi’s book Islamic Empires, Tunku Varadarajan, executive editor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and thus someone who should know better if our academic environment were not so corrupt and compromised, retails present-day academic fictions about Islamic history that outrage the historical record, and that no one who was remotely […]
WSJ condemns “new war” on Christians in Africa which is “massive in scale, horrific in brutality”
“Islamist Fulani raiders are waging a barbaric war on Nigeria’s Christians, the Wall Street Journal reported this week, in a brutal campaign to rid the country’s Middle Belt of non-Muslims.” Finally, the mainstream Wall Street Journal has picked up the issue of Christian persecution in Africa as a “new war” on African Christians. Only it […]
Wall Street Journal: Islamic State sprang from “humiliations at the hands of arrogant European imperial powers”
My latest in PJ Media: Establishment academic Walter Russell Mead, writing about the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Wall Street Journal Monday, declared: “Movements like ISIS don’t spring from nowhere. It took centuries of decline, serial humiliations at the hands of arrogant European imperial powers, and decades of failed postcolonial governance to produce […]